On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 05:05:06 -0800, lucasbuchala wrote: > An itemized empty list is getting ".perl"-stringified as "$()", which > I think is wrong since $() means some idiom using "$/". The fix should > be just to make it stringify as "$( )" (with a space in the middle) or > maybe "().item" for clarity. (Maybe in a future version of the > language, the syntax "$()" could be made to really mean a itemized > empty list.) > > > say $( ).perl > $() > > > say ().item.perl > $() > > > 'foo' ~~ /o+/; say $() > oo
Thank you for the report. This is now fixed. Fix: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/a148c70190 Test: https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/dff2d90263 This also identified a wrong test in 6.c-errata: Approval for change: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-dev/2017-02-10#i_14080972 Change in 6.c-errata: https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/ca0ce9a5d7 Change in master: https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/fc2f46ea02
